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High theatre ticket prices in the West End are "creating a divide in the audience between the rich and the poor", a top director has claimed. 

Jamie Lloyd, who launched Doctor Faustus at the Duke of York's Theatre starring Game of Thrones' Kit Harington last week, called the industry "corrupt" over decisions to charge more than £100 for some tickets. 

He described such high prices as "outrageous" and told The Stage: 

His production group The Jamie Lloyd Company runs a £15 Mondays scheme which makes every seat in the auditorium accessible at the reduced rate.   

Lloyd, who has won an Olivier award and an Evening Standard award for past productions, also directed The Maids with Zawe Ashton and Downton's Laura Carmichael and Macbeth, which featured James McAvoy.   

Discussing the failure of large theatres to use high prices to subsidise off-peak tickets, he said: "It's corrupt and it needs to be addressed."  

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Contain yourself, everybody! Magic Mike is going to be a real live thing. Unfortunately, it's only going to be in Las Vegas for now. 

Channing Tatum, on whose life the original film was loosely based, made the announcement in a very watchable video, featuring shirtless men and cute puppies. 

Tatum said Magic Mike Live, due to open in 2017, was an attempt to give women the same entertainment as men are used to (i.e. strip clubs).

Tatum won't be starring in the show but hinted he might make a guest appearance.

The show, a partnership with Cosmopolitan magazine, external, could eventually tour other cities. 

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Janet Jackson is expecting her first child, it has been reported, just two weeks shy of her 50th birthday.

The news was broken by Entertainment Tonight, external, who quoted "a source" as the... er, source of the story. It comes a month after the star postponed her world tour to start a family with her husband Wissam Al Mana.

Janet has yet to comment - instead using her social media accounts to premiere a video for her new single, Dammn Baby.

Taken from her seventh US number one album, Unbreakable, the video features a simple set-up, focussing on the star's snap-pop choreography. 

Associated Press went behind the scenes on the video shoot... which is more interesting than it sounds, thanks to interviews with the star's choreographer and songwriters.

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Daily newspaper the New Day is set to close on Friday, just nine weeks after it was launched.

Publisher Trinity Mirror said it was "disappointing" but circulation for the title was "below our expectations".

Editor Alison Phillips said "we tried everything we could", adding that the paper had had a good reaction from readers, "but the reality was we didn't have enough of them".

It had hoped to sell about 200,000 copies a day, but sales are reported to have fallen to about 40,000.

The paper was launched in February and was said to be politically neutral and aimed at "time-poor" readers. Although the title had a social media presence, it did not have a website.

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Media personalities have been offering their thoughts on the paper's demise.

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Comedy legend Victoria Wood was remembered by family and friends at a private funeral yesterday, according to The Sun.

Wood's death last month shocked the entertainment world after she chose to keep her cancer battle private from all but those close to her.

The paper reports that among the mourners at Golders Green Crematorium were Julie Walters, alongside Wood's children and ex-husband Geoffrey Durham, aka The Great Soprendo.

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We love a good trailer here on the Entertainment Live page.

Just about every day, you can guarantee a new film teaser will be released that makes us even more excited about it than we already were.

In the olden days, trailers were about 15 seconds long and ran on TV.

Nowadays, they've become something of an art form, usually more than two minutes and posted on YouTube. 

A good trailer will whet the fans appetite while also not revealing too many plot spoilers.

So it's only fair that trailers get an awards ceremony of their own, and last night, the Golden Trailer Awards were held in Beverley Hills.

This trailer for Spotlight won the best of show prize and best independent trailer:

The Jungle Book was the top winning film, collecting trophies in four categories.  

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Celebrated comedy writing duo Ray Galton and Alan Simpson will be honoured with a Bafta Fellowship at the academy's television awards on Sunday. 

The fellowship, awarded annually, is the highest accolade handed out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

The pair's collaborations include Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, as well as writing for the likes of Frankie Howerd.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

Welcome to Thursday's Entertainment Live page. 

Here are our top three favourite things about Thursdays: 

1) It's almost Friday 

2) You're firmly past the halfway point of the working week 

3) It was named after Thor, the God of Sky and Thunder - i.e. "Thor's Day".

On this particular Thursday, we'll be bringing you all the entertainment news we can, from the world of film, TV, music and art.

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